After the next dynasty, Qin Wangdang left Gan Mao alone and asked curiously: "Prime Minister, just now at the court meeting, Qing strongly suggested withdrawing from the Five Nations Alliance and making peace with the Chu State. Moreover, in the case that all the ministers thought that the Chu State was too powerful and powerful, only the prime minister did not think so, but thought that the Chu State was not enough, and the widow wanted to hear the prime minister's detailed explanation of why the prime minister said so. ”

Gan Mao nodded, pondered for a while, and then spoke: "Great King, please explain why you are asking to withdraw from the Chu State and make peace with the Chu State. ”

"Please, the widow listens." Qin Wang Dang was sitting precariously and looked at Gan Mao expectantly.

"Great King, the reason why my Qin State agreed to the request of Qi and Wei and let the army of the Five Kingdoms attack Chencheng, the Jianghuai gateway of Chu State, is not only because my Qin State has agreed to Qi and Wei on the Korean issue, but also because my Qin State believes that because of the reforms in the past few years, the King of Chu deliberately withdrew power from the locality, so that there were irreconcilable contradictions between the monarchs and ministers of Chu State, between Yingdu and various places.

Therefore, we thought that as long as the armies of the five countries gathered to attack Chu, the feudal monarchs of all parts of Chu would support themselves and violate the edict of the king of Chu when they saw that the coalition army was strong. In this way, our five-nation alliance will inevitably easily conquer Chencheng, and then move south to jointly carve up the Huaibei land of Chu.

But the actual result is completely different from what we predicted, although the monarchs and ministers of Chu have been separated, but the control of the king of Chu over the state of Chu is still beyond our expectations, and the feudal monarchs of all parts of the state of Chu still dare not resist the king of Chu at this time, and are still attached to the king of Chu.

Therefore, our plan to intimidate the state of Chu with one army, hoping to defeat the state of Chu quickly, failed.

Since the plan failed, then there is no need for our Qin army to continue to stay in Chencheng, and we should immediately withdraw and return to China. Attacking Chen Cheng will do too little benefit to our Qin State, and it will really outweigh the losses.

This is the reason why the minister persuaded the king to withdraw his army. ”

When Qin Wang Dang heard this, he let out a long sigh.

The contradictions within the Chu State, the Qin State and even the countries in the world are all keeping a close eye on it, and even when the Qin State showed signs of discord between the monarch and the minister, and the discord between the central and local governments on the side of the Chu State, it used Gongzi Lan to make a fuss.

Although the plan to use Gongzi Lan to split the monarchs and ministers of the Chu State failed mostly, the Qin State paid more attention to the internal situation of the Chu State.

Sure enough, later the king of Chu first set up all northern Hanbei as counties, and then carried out changes in Jiangdong, which all showed the people of the world the determination of the king of Chu to change the law.

And after the Qin State knew about the movements of the Chu State, they were even more ecstatic.

You must know that when the Qin State changed the law under the auspices of Shang Ying, the conservative nobles in the country were already extremely weak under the blow of the Wei State, but even so, the Shang Ying reform was carried out for more than ten years, and Weishui, not far from Xianyang of the Qin State, was also stained red with blood twice.

Even the Qin State is like this, not to mention the Chu State, which is far stronger than the Qin State in terms of aristocratic strength, with the situation that the feudal monarch of the Chu State owns all the military and political wealth of the land, one is not good, and the feudal monarchs in various places officially break with the King of Chu, then the Chu State will definitely be full of smoke and blood.

In the best case, it will be like Wu Qi's change of law, the country will be in turmoil, and he will be weak for more than ten or twenty years.

It was precisely because of this that the Qin State agreed to Qi Wei's request to attack Chendi, intending to scare the Chu State with the million-strong army of the Five Kingdoms.

But the result was that the monarchs and ministers of the Qin State were disappointed, although the Chu State was already in chaos, but the feudal monarchs from all over the Chu State still did not dare to resist the King of Chu.

As soon as the king of Chu issued an edict, the feudal lords of Jianghuai all carried out the order of the king of Chu without hesitation.

So much so that now the five countries have besieged Chen Di for almost a year, and Chen Di is still as stable as a rock.

It is precisely because of this that Qin Wangdang is very hesitant to let the Qin army attack Chendi, after all, even if he conquers Chendi, or even conquers all the Huaibei land, it has little to do with Qin.

Rather than this, why spend it in Chen Di and Chu State.

It's just that the state of Chu is now strong, which also makes the king of Qin fearful, lest the countries be weak and Chu will fail, so that the state of Chu will be difficult to control. More importantly, it is worried that there is no external threat from the Chu State, which will give the King of Chu time to calmly resolve the internal crisis.

The so-called opportunity must not be lost, and it will not come again, and this is what it says.

It is precisely because of this tangled psychology that he sways left and right on the issue of withdrawing from the army.

And what happened in Korea not long ago overwhelmed King Qin's determination to continue to attack Chu outside Chencheng in one fell swoop.

It's just that Lou Yan and his ministers strongly opposed, as well as the too strong state of Chu, also King Qin had scruples and could not make up his mind.

Thinking of this, Qin Wangdang frowned slightly, looked at Gan Mao and asked, "Why does the prime minister think that the Chu State seems to be powerful, but in fact it is not to be feared?" ”

Gan Mao smiled and said: "Great King, although the action of the Five Kingdoms of Chu this time has shown us the control of the King of Chu over the Chu State, this cannot change the fact that the monarchs and ministers of the Chu State are separated.

Chen was originally from Chu, grew up in Chu State, studied in Chu State, ran away from Chu State, and stayed in Chu State for nearly 30 years, and knew Chu State very well.

In the country of Chu, in the center, the princes control the state power, not to mention foreigners, or the poor families of Chu State, even the nobles of Chu State, it is difficult to become the high-level of Chu State. Now the intention of the king of Chu to change the law has been revealed, but the high-level of the Chu State, except for the Zhu State Tang Yu, who is from the noble Tang clan, others, such as Ling Yin Sima Zuo, Yin Zuo, etc., are still from the Zhaojingqu three clans.

The strength of the Chu clan can be seen. ”

Saying that, Gan Mao's eyes sank: "Maybe it's because the State of Chu hasn't done anything to the office yet, so now the King of Chu can still control the situation."

However, with the deepening of the reform of the King of Chu, the King of Chu is bound to take back all the rights in the country into his own hands, which is bound to cause great contradictions between the King of Chu and the princes. ”

Qin Wang Dang nodded when he heard this, he knew a lot about it.

The changes in all countries in the world are all centered on war, whether it is the Qin State or other countries, they all do this. In order to deal with war, it is necessary to concentrate all the power of the state, so that all the power of the state is concentrated in one person, that is, the king.

If the state of Chu also does the same and allows the king of Chu to obtain all the state power, it will definitely make all the princes of the state of Chu dissatisfied.

Qin Wangdang had no doubt about this.

At this time, Gan Mao saw that Qin Wang Dang nodded, and continued: "Great King, if it is said that the king of Chu will be separated from the prince in the future, then now, under the condition that the king of Chu does not hide his intentions, and when the king of Chu wantonly kills the feudal monarchs, the feudal monarchs of Jianghuai have already separated from the king of Chu.

And the feudal monarch of Chu is the real king of a land, holding all the rights in the fief, what they want to do in the fief, even the king of Chu cannot interfere.

Now, the king of Chu has not officially attacked the feudal monarch, and the law change has not been fully launched, so the feudal monarch of the Chu State can still endure it.

However, when the king of Chu really begins to change the law, at that time, it will be the beginning of the king of Chu rebelling and leaving his relatives and becoming a lonely family. ”

King Qin frowned and hesitated: "Prime Minister, the widow also knows that the King of Chu will start to change the law sooner or later, but the King of Chu has been preparing for so long, but he has always been cautious and abnormal every step, how can the widow know when the King of Chu will officially change the law."

Wait until the king of Chu officially changes the law, wait until the king of Chu separates from the ministers of Chu, wait until the internal chaos of Chu, and wait until the next time the time to attack Chu comes, when will the widow have to wait? ”

When Gan Mao heard this, he smiled and said: "Great King, the King of Chu's change of law will come soon, the internal chaos of Chu will also come soon, and the time for various countries to attack Chu will also come soon." ”

"Soon, how fast?"

"Great King, the change of the Chu State is far more difficult than that of other countries, and there is a huge flaw in its change."

"Flaws?"

"Yes, this flaw is nothing else, but the King of Chu himself."

"King Chu?"

"Yes, it's Chu Wanghuai himself." Gan Mao said meaningfully: "The king of Chu is the same age as the first king, and now the first king has been dead for many years, and the king of Chu is almost sixty years old, if the king of Chu dies of illness at the age when the king of Chu Wei died of illness, then the tree in front of the tomb of the king of Chu is already thick." If the king of Chu died of illness at the age when King Xuan of Chu died of illness, then the king of Chu would not have a few years to live. ”

Speaking of this, Gan Mao hesitated: "Even if the king of Chu lives a long life and can live to seventy, can the king of Chu still live to eighty?" And the change of the law cannot be completed overnight, even with the talent of the Shang monarch and the convenience of the Qin State, the change of the law lasted for nearly 20 years to be completed.

Therefore, the minister affirmed that with the great inconvenience of the Chu State, and the lack of Shang Jun talent in the Chu State, the reform of the Chu State would definitely take more than 20 years to complete. Therefore, the minister said that the biggest flaw in the change of Chu is Chu Wanghuai himself. ”

After speaking, Gan Mao smiled and said: "The king is not yet the year of his establishment, and the day when the king of Chu dies is the time of civil strife in Chu, the opportunity for various countries to attack Chu, and the beginning of the decline and fall of the Chu State."

The seemingly powerful Chu State will collapse at that moment. The minister believes that that day will not be too far away.

Therefore, it is not a pity that the minister thought that he had given up this opportunity. On the contrary, giving up this opportunity can also boost the prestige of the king of Chu and make the state of Chu more unscrupulous to carry out changes to speed up the arrival of the collapse of the state of Chu. ”

When Qin Wang Dang heard this, he was silent for a long time before he nodded slowly: "What Xiangguo said is reasonable, the countries in the world have been in dispute for hundreds of years, and the war will not end in a short time, and the dispute between countries is not a temporary dispute, but a dispute that lasts for hundreds of years. The widow doesn't believe it, and at the age when the widow is less than the year old, he will not be able to fight the king of Chu who is close to Jiazi. ”

Saying that, Qin Wangdang instantly made up his mind, looked at Gan Mao with a firm face and said: "Prime Minister, the widow has decided to officially start making peace with the Chu State, however, if the King of Chu wants to let the Qin State retreat, he still needs to pay some price, and the widow will not let the Chu State go so easily."

Zuo Yin Zhaochang of Chu State has been in Qin State for a long time, and the matter of discussing conditions with Zhao Chang will be handed over to the prime minister. ”

"Yui."

Then, Qin Wangdang looked at the back of Gan Mao leaving, and suddenly remembered the old face of King Song